Munt-clýse (-a ?)

Secondo il Dizionario dell'Inglese Antico:

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munt-clýse (-a ?)

f. (m. ?). A place shut in by hills, a mountain-prison : -- Gog and Magog, þæt beóð þá mancyn þe Alexander beclýsde binnan muntclýsan, Wlfst. 84, 31. [Cf. Efter this Alexander went and closed in a maner of folkes þat are called Gog and Magog wiþin þe hilles of Caspy. . . . He garte close all þe entreeȝ wit stane and lyme and sand. Prose Life of Alexander, p. 104, E. E. T. S., no. 143. II. 2.] munt-clyse -a

Parole correlate: mann-cynn ;